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From Reg Me Please
Subject Re: what is the date format in binary query results
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In response to Re: what is the date format in binary query results  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: what is the date format in binary query results  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: what is the date format in binary query results  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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Il Thursday 08 November 2007 16:18:58 Tom Lane ha scritto:
> It's either an int8 representing microseconds away from 2000-01-01
> 00:00:00 UTC, or a float8 representing seconds away from the same
> origin.

Does this mean that negative numbers are for timestamps before y2k?

Why and when there is a choice between int8 and float8 representation?


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